Flaviano Bianchini (BFS editions)
"The real voyage, a journey of discovery and exploration is only journey on foot. " Flaviano Bianchini told in this book, its brave and fascinating journey from the sacred mount Kailash to Lhasa: 1500 km from west to east through Tibet.
Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers on foot and on makeshift equipment, a tent in a backpack, some books and little else. A trip to the intense soul searching in Tibet along the places where he lived his friend Palden Gyatso. Monaco Tibetan exile after 33 years in prison and terrible torture for thinking and talking about a free Tibet.
Bianchini follows the paths of direct Tibetan pilgrims to holy places and the paths that still today, as for centuries, the nomadic herders travel, trying to stay as far away from the checkpoints of the Chinese soldiers because he is traveling outside the predetermined paths, and mandatory for tourists.
Miles and miles in the highlands and the player is found to accompany Bianchini long unspoiled landscapes, endless, lonely villages. And among the many meetings in the heart remains Tenzingutu the figure of a young pilgrim, which will share a part travel. The Tibetan boy brings with him a blanket, a coffee pot, tea leaves, butter and barley flour. Nothing else.
And how can we forget the brief encounter with the woman of 74 years: the face full of wrinkles, burned for so much wind and sun, which lights up for the gift of a few pebbles. Because the stones in Tibet can buy a deep meaning.
Bianchini Following this trip, actually seem to feel the smell of juniper and yak butter tea: A taste of Tibet. And you learn the history of this country has always been at war for the defense of its freedom.
They meet and know the nomads, traders and farmers in Tibet, living without electricity, and we understand well that the Chinese will never destroy the Tibetan culture and clear the mind.
The Dalai Lama, monasteries, the highlands, Mount Everest, which is called Everest Chomolangma but "the mother goddess of the universe, the Sherpas, the exploitation of mineral resources and serious damage to the environment (as in Latin America), the bare benches to sleep on, yak, street vendors, the mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum," the wind of Shishapangma, the kora of Mount Kailash, the new busy roads built by Chinese dissidents in prisons, poor but generous hospitality, the flag of the rising sun, "Rangzen" ...
A journey into the soul of a people, among the people.
a backpacker and a promise to return by his Palden to tell what is left of his Tibet, he can go back there.
Exciting, the wish that the journey never ends. And Flaviano Bianchini, in fact it is this: "As for me, my journey did not end there because, as Bruce Chatwin said, life itself is a long journey to walk."
Monica Mazzoleni
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